Butler police say surveillance video helped identify the suspect in at least two recent burglaries at a downtown pizza shop.

The alleged burglar, it turned out, is the owners’ son, according to investigators.

Police on Wednesday obtained an arrest warrant for 24-year-old Shane M. Bates on charges of burglary and theft.

Bates, who has no known address, is accused of breaking into Pizza Joe’s on North Main Street on consecutive nights last month and stealing nearly $1,000.

Owners Jeffrey and Kari Eberhardt of Center Township last week notified police of “large amounts of money” missing from the cash register drawer at the business. Along with the missing money, they reported a series of burglar alarms that went off in May.

The couple initially believed the alarms, six in all, were false alarms. But that changed when they checked the video from the store’s security system.

The footage, documents said, on some of the nights that the alarm went off showed Bates “run directly back to the alarm key pad and disable the alarm” while the business was closed.

Police on Monday also reviewed the surveillance video, which caught the defendant entering the front door of the pizza shop about 1:25 p.m. May 30, Memorial Day.

He is seen immediately running to the back of the store, where he switched off the alarm. When he returns to camera range, police said, he heads to the cash register and removes at least $650.

He left the store the same way he came in.

Bates allegedly pulled off a similar theft about 10:20 p.m. May 31, police said. This time the video caught him taking at least $250.

In all, the owners determined $960 was stolen from the drawer on those two days.